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Here at TechLahore, we’ve covered GIS in Pakistan a few times in the past. We’ve even reviewed indigenous Pakistan mapping services, such as Naqsha.net. Google is obviously still the undisputed champion of open source GIS/mapping and satellite imagery. But where they have been found lacking in the past is the paucity of street maps and [...]

This is a reader contributed post. The article was written and contributed by Shahid Saeed. The two biggest names in community created online free for all maps are OpenStreetMap (http://www.openstreetmap.org/) and Google MapMaker (http://www.google.com/mapmaker). The main difference between the two is that OpenStreetMap provides its map data under a Creative Commons license, any maps created by users of [...]

If you ever thought that a little GPS map embedded deep inside a tiny application in a relatively inexpensive piece of consumer technology was, in the grand scheme of things, unimportant and harmless, well, think again. Recent happenings in India will expose your naivete! Apparently, Nokia cell phones contain GPS maps of Kashmir, which (correctly, from [...]

I was pleasantly surprised to learn about the launch of Naqsha.net, a GIS website that promises to provide driving direction and accurate route mapping for major Pakistani cities. Because Google and Yahoo don’t really have good street map coverage outside the US and some parts of Europe, this new site could potentially be a boon [...]